1/ I disagree with the idea that entrepreneurs ought to have a good answer to “why now?” I think it’s a cousin of the efficient market hypothesis, which only holds in thick markets, and the startups market is all but thick.
2/ Consider how few people live at the intersection of [have good ideas] x [have the skills to execute on it] x [have access to investors & cofounders] x [are in a place in their life where they can work on sthg new] x [have enough personal runway to work on it until first raise]
3/ The pool is absolutely microscopic — and the startups solution space is huge! Very often the answer to “why now?” is “the right people just haven’t started working on it yet”
